KGB

Some of the key events about KGB

• 1937

  Conducted mass executions and deportations during the Great Purge
• 1940

  Orchestrated the Katyn massacre of Polish officers and intelligentsia
• 1953

  Fabricated the "Doctors' Plot" to purge Jewish doctors
• 1954

  Established a foreign intelligence division to gather information abroad
• 1956

  Violently suppressed the Hungarian Revolution
• 1957

  Created a special department to combat economic crimes and corruption
• 1962

  Arrested and executed Soviet spy Oleg Penkovsky
• 1967

  Formed an elite counter-terrorism unit called "Alpha Group"
• 1968

  Led the invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring
• 1971

  Established a computer center to modernize intelligence gathering and analysis
• 1973

  Implemented advanced surveillance technologies to enhance operational capabilities
• 1979

  Assassinated the Afghan president, leading to Soviet invasion
• 1982

  Developed a specialized division for combating organized crime
• 1983

  Shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing all 269 people on board
• 1985

  Expanded international cooperation efforts with foreign intelligence agencies
• 1985

  Kidnapped and tortured American journalist Nicholas Daniloff
• 1988

  Played a role in negotiating the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan
• 1989

  Assisted in the peaceful resolution of conflicts during the fall of the Berlin Wall
• 1989

  Violently suppressed pro-independence protests in Tbilisi, Georgia
• 1991

  Helped maintain stability during the dissolution of the Soviet Union

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